Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Agricultural Schemes: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:30 pm

Mr. Paul Savage:

We will not have a specific figure for what is owed until we calculate what the actual payments due to each participant are. As I said earlier, we have paid 31,000 farmers and we have paid a total of just over €230 million over the period of the programme so far. As we work through the remaining payments, which we are doing in fortnightly pay runs over the next number of weeks, it will become clear exactly what the level of payments due to each of those participants is and in comparison to the interim payments that have been issued in those cases, we will reconcile the amounts that are due to those farmers at that point in time. We still have to process all of this.